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Incredible footage was released recently on YouTube of a 4-foot-long blacktip shark being eaten in a single bite by a Goliath Grouper as it was being reeled toward a fisherman's boat, purportedly off Bonita Springs earlier this month. As the shark is being reeled in, and orange presence becomes visible under the water and then, with lightning quickness, the massive grouper (formerly called the jewfish) snaps up the shark, shocking the people on the boat.

A house caught fire Tuesday evening in southwest Fort Lauderdale, causing moderate to heavy smoke damage to the structure. The fire in the 3100 block of Southwest 16th Street started in a 28-foot boat and spread to a carport before reaching the house, Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue Deputy Fire Chief Timothy C. Heiser said. There were no reported injuries. Fire Rescue officials were able to put out the fire "pretty quickly," Heiser said. The resident of the house had been working on the boat when the fire started, Heiser said.

A Boynton man loading vacation luggage helped bust two boat burglars before he left on his trip, according to a Boynton Beach Police arrest report. The victim told police it was just before 5 a.m. Thursday when he was putting the luggage in his front yard on the 600 block of Lake Street. After grabbing more bags and coming back outside, he noticed a man, later identified as Jerome Inman, 20, of Greenacres, standing on his 27' Conch Center Console vessel in his driveway, rummaging through the boat, according to the report.

It was poor seamanship that sunk a $14 million South Florida drug-smuggling ring and sent one of its organizers to prison. David Antonio Mendez-Sicard was sentenced to more than 11 years in federal prison Thursday — his 59 t h birthday — for his role in the operation that unraveled when a sailboat ran aground in Port Everglades more than two years ago. The crew on board the "Sea Ya" called for help and were acting so suspiciously that...

The original cast of the popular 1970s television show The Love Boat will serve as godparents to the new Regal Princess cruise ship, which will be officially named in a ceremony on Nov. 5 at Port Everglades . The 3,560-passenger Regal Princess entered service in May, and is arriving in Fort Lauderdale to begin a maiden season of Caribbean cruises. All six Love Boat cast members - who played the roles of Captain Stubing, Gopher, Isaac, Doc, Julie and Vicki - will reunite to christen the new ship, operator Princess Cruises announced Wednesday.

A Margate woman died while diving for lobster near Marathon on Thursday, according to the Monroe County Sheriff's Office. Melissa Fellows, 36, was diving near the Seven Mile Bridge about 2 p.m. during a dive trip aboard a private boat. Her husband, Wayne Fellows, 32, was one of several people aboard the vessel, sheriff's officials said. She and another diver were in about 12 feet of water using a "hookah rig" breathing apparatus, which draws air from the surface through a line connected to the mask, investigators said.

Palm Beach County deputies and the Coast Guard intercepted a boat carrying a group of migrants off Highland Beach on Thursday. CBS12, the Sun Sentinel's news partner, reported that 21 people on the boat were from Haiti and 1 from Jamaica. The boat came from the Bahamas, CBS12 reported. None of the migrants reached the shore. Delray Beach Police spokeswoman Nicole Guerriero said Palm Beach County deputies were contacted by Highland Beach Police just before 7 a.m. By 8 a.m., a helicopter patrolled the water as what appeared to be about nine law enforcement boats gathered around a single boat.

The peer-to-peer rental concept popular among travelers has gone pier-to-peer. Like Airbnb.com, where homeowners rent out a room or the whole house to vacationers, boat-sharing websites give landlubbers who want to spend a few hours on the water an online marketplace to search for boats of various sizes and prices in South Florida. Instead of going to a boat charter company, potential renters log onto a website such as Boatbound.com and connect with boat owners directly. For the owners of the vessels, it's also a way to make some extra cash off their boats when they're idle.

Recently, photographer Kara Starzyk and I rose before sunrise to capture the majestic essence of Broward County 's only lighthouse for this week's cover photo. As the sun rose along the horizon we met Hillsboro Lighthouse Preservation Society's (HLPS) Museum Manager Judy Knoebel and President Arthur A. Makenian for a morning exploration of the Hillsboro Inlet Lighthouse. Before lighthouses were invented, fires on top of hills were used to guide mariners into ports. At the turn of the 18th century lighthouses used oil lamps to provide a visible warning against shipping hazards.